<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Wiggums:
Being Premier Executive, I get to enjoy RCC lounges on international tickets. AA frequent flyers at any level do not.</font>
You must be referring to DL, NW, and CO. AA mid-tiers definitely get lounge access when flying itineraries outside North America. The Wing in Hong Kong, by the way, is indeed all that's cracked up to be.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">UA's mileage runs are much better than AA's - hands down - due to plentiful Asian and European routes. Not to mention they're consistently cheaper on UA than AA.</font>
I would say that the mileage run opportunities to Asia on UA are better than those on AA. Sure, you can periodically find good deals to NRT on both airlines. But with runs to SIN/BKK, UA has the edge on this category as cheap fares to SIN/BKK are often available, though AA occasionally matches UA in this market. For runs to Europe and South America, I would say AA and UA offer similar opportunities. To Australia/New Zealand? Usually too expensive to be a mileage run.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Award trips require lower mileage on UA than AA.</font>
I suppose this is somewhat true. For example, for Europe/Asia in J, UA is 80,000, AA is 90,000.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Harder to get to Premier Executive on UA than AA (Reason: AA has way too many million milers because they factor in bonus miles as well - effectively watering it down).</font>
In order to get lifetime AA mid-tier status, you would need 2,000,000 lifetime miles. Surely there can't be a lot of them.
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Plato90s:
and on AA you can get premium class on connecting flights on a partner carrier without using an alliance award.</font>
With the new Star Alliance awards, wouldn't the connecting flight in the same class of service also be included?
http://www.ual.com/ual/asset/MP_Star_Awards.pdf
[This message has been edited by francophile (edited 10-17-2002).]